Paul Sullins

Paul Sullins is Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. Introduction As is well known, in contrast to Plato’s theory that the universal forms of the things we experience exist in an ideal realm (idealism) of which we had knowledge prior to experiencing them, Aristotle thought that they did not exist apart from…

Christian Smith considers it “too narrow and exacting” to require that Christian scholarship seek to “weav science and theology integrally together.” I, on the other hand, consider that to be the sine qua non of scholarship that is Christian. I am not suggesting that every individual work of Christian scholarship needs to articulate theological or…